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Job Purpose
As a tire fitter, you play a crucial role in ensuring vehicles roll smoothly and securely on the roads. Your expertise lies in the careful selection, fitting, and maintenance of tires, catering to a diverse range of vehicles, from passenger cars to heavy-duty trucks. You ensure that every tire meets the highest standards of performance and safety.
Responsibilities:
Key Performance Areas
- Tyre Fitting & Removal
- Mount new tires onto vehicle rims using appropriate machinery and tools.
- Clean and paint rims before fitting tyres.
- Fit wheels on to motor vehicles correctly.
- Match dual wheels correctly.
- Inflate tyres according to manufacturer’s specifications.
- Report any defects to the site supervisor e.g., studs, washers, and wheel nuts.
- Undertakes pressure and torque checks.
- Torque wheel nuts to manufactures specifications.
- Brand tyres
- Apply safety standards.
- Customer Service
- Advise site supervisor on appropriate action, who subsequently assists the customers.
- Receive customers in a friendly manner and with a smile.
- Always clean and presentable
- Housekeeping and Asset Management
- Handles tools with care and correctly.
- Ensures work area and yard are always clean.
- Ensures machines & tools are always clean and stored correctly and safely.
- Ensures dressing rooms are always presentable and neat.
- Ensure company property is not damaged.
- Health and Safety
- Adheres to Health & Safety standards in the workplace and does not endanger other parties.
- Complies with the requirements of the Occupational Health and Safety Act
- Ensure Personal Safety Equipment and facilities provided by the company are in good and clean condition.
- Documentation
- Correctly complete tyre changes slip for wheel changes and hands them in timely
- Prepares survey reports correctly and hands them in timely.
- Clocks in and out at correct times as per shift by correctly signing the time register.
- General
- Undertake all reasonable requests and instructions, given verbally or in writing that falls within the parameters of own line of duty.
Qualifications & Experience Required
Education, Master, other certification
- Grade 12 Certificate
- Basic knowledge of tyre types, sizes, and handling techniques.
- Physical stamina and the ability to lift heavy objects.
- Attention to detail and safety consciousness.
- Forklift or machinery operation certification is a plus.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, physically demanding environment.
Experience (years):
- Experience in the tyre industry will be an advantage.
Languages Skills:
- English
- Any local spoken languages
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